Army
Army Medic Returns To D-Day Beach For First Time In 70 Years
He is one of the most decorated living Second World War veterans.
Arthur Davies' selection for D-day followed experience of landings in Sicily and mainland Italy, and had also been to North Africa.
Seventy-one years after the landings, Arthur the former Army medic has returned to the beach in Normandy where he treated the wounded.
He was one of the first British soldiers to set foot in France at the start of the Allied operation to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation.
Arthur will receive France's highest honour, the Legion D'Honneur.
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